And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in Ije–abarim, in the border of Moab.
And they journeyed from Oboth, and encamped in Iye-abarim, in the border of Moab.
and they journey from Oboth, and encamp in Ije-Abarim, in the border of Moab.
And they removed from Oboth, and encamped in Ijim-Abarim, in the border of Moab.
Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
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Ije-abarim - The heaps of Abarim. See Num 21:11. Situation uncertain. It is called Iim in the following verse. As the word signifies heaps or protuberances, it probably means tumuil or small hills near some of the fords of Jordan. Stat. 38.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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They journeyed from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim in the wilderness opposite Moab to the east.
